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Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sirhan Sirhan Will Likely Leave Prison in 2021
But Bobby Kennedy will still be dead.
[TheGuardian] The man who killed Robert F Kennedy was granted parole on Friday after two of the former attorney general, senator and presidential hopeful's sons spoke in favor of release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars.

The decision was a major victory for Sirhan Sirhan,
...the Jerusalem-born, Christian Palestinian of Jordanian citizenship who showed his gratitude for growing up in the safety of the U.S. by killing a presidential candidate for supporting Israel...
77, though it did not assure his release.

The ruling by the two-person panel at Sirhan'16th parole hearing will be reviewed over 90 days by the California parole board. Then it will be sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant it, reverse it or modify it.
Sirhan has learned to show remorse (as he was not able to do as late as 2016) and has the entire leftist establishment on his side.
Bobby Junior decided that the confessed murderer of his father is innocent, so that’s that.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is the work of the George Soros funded DA in Los Angeles.
There is a recall effort to remove George Soros as well as Governor Gavin Newsome if you live in Los Angeles:
"recallgeorgegascon.com"
Posted by: boomerc || 08/28/2021 4:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Somebody who believes they're a nobody in this world can become a somebody by taking out the killer of Robert Kennedy. I'd think it would be safer locked up rather than being in a lot of places these days. I wonder if Vegas is taking bets.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The True Ghost Tales Comics Shows An Character In Being Murderer Of Plastic Surgeon doing Criminal Plastic Surgery !! Doc Fears Man's New Face Be Murderer Of Doc !! Killer To Die In Story Looks Like guy claiming 2 Young Lovers At Stairwell : I Want You to Believe I'm A Secret Service Agent & Witnessed RFK's Murder & check Stairwell Perimeter & guy not identified saying this ! Possible Killer Of RFK!! Man Not Secret Serviceman !!
Posted by: Thrineper Gray5053 || 08/28/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Governor Newsome must approve the recommendation. He can either go with it or not. See what the issue is polling before he acts.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 08/28/2021 20:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, for a dirt nap.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 23:01 Comments || Top||


Two arrested after two men are killed and one is critically wounded in gang shootout in front of Illinois courthouse
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Gunfire erupted outside a Kankakee, Illinois, courthouse Thursday

  • Two men were killed and a third was transported to hospital where he underwent surgery

  • Two men have been arrested and police said the community is not at risk

  • Kankakee, about 60 miles south of Chicago, ranked the ninth-most dangerous city in Illinois
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Shooter: Mexican
Victim 1: Mexican
Victim 2: Mexican

Members of the same gang.

Lived about 20 miles east on the Indiana border.
Would go to the Holiday Inn to drink and dance.
Girls would use their Sears credit card as ID.
Sometimes got a room for the night.
Had a great time, 50 years ago.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Cartel boys or local talent?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Does it matter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 23:02 Comments || Top||


Texas homeowner uses machete against burglary suspect, 22, seriously injuring his face, police say
[FoxNews] A machete-wielding homeowner in Texas seriously injured a suspect who attempted to break into his home early Wednesday, authorities said.

El Paso police said the homeowner awakened around 4:15 a.m. to the sound of glass breaking. He walked outside and found a man holding a metal rod breaking the front windows of his house, police said.

"Armed with a machete, the homeowner told the man to leave, but a confrontation ensued and the homeowner struck the intruder in the face with the machete," according to the department.

The suspect, identified as Carlos Esteban Villaescusa, 22, ran from responding coppers but was arrested after jumping into a neighbor's backyard.

Police said he also trespassed into a second home on the same block and broke the front window of another home.

Villaescusa was hospitalized with serious injuries suffered during the confrontation with the homeowner.

He will be booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility following his release from a hospital.

Villaescusa faces charges of burglary of a habitation, evading arrest or detention, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass, police said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ?Bringing a stick to a machete fight?
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/28/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2 
WAIT FOR IT
I am sure some Liberal idiot politician will be screaming that Machetes need to be a registered weapon.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Clearly premeditated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Parents are ordered to pay $30K to son, 43, for throwing away his 'disturbing' collection of 2,000 porn tapes after he moved out of their basement
Worth it to get rid of the things.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 10:02 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't he have an Internet connection?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Worth it to get rid of the son
Posted by: Hupomoter Spusong7661 || 08/28/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Gaze upon that which too many Baby Boomers have brought forth.

The only good thing that came from my generation is music...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 18:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, and Herpes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 22:54 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Buried footage of ‘Ax Handle Saturday’ is uncovered after more than 60 years: Video captures moment mob of 200 white men attacks peaceful black sit-in against segregation in clip that then disappeared in media blackout
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The Jacksonville Historical Society unearthed previously and purposely buried video of 'Ax Handle Saturday,' which happened on August 28, 1960

  • A white mob beat black people - including children and teenagers - after a sit-in demonstration

  • There was a media blackout at the time and footage hasn't been seen until now

  • Mitch Hemann, a senior archivist for the Historical Society, said 'It is very brutal footage, but it is important footage'

  • 'With the media blackout at the time, that’s a measure in terms of trying to keep these stories out of the public'

  • The mayor at the time reportedly denied the attack
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 10:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Curious timing on the release...almost as if a massive distraction and contrarian emotional shift was needed desperately in the MSM. Almost like someone is monitoring the PsyOps manipulation from the Central Committee over at the Kalorama Kompund and realizes they might lose Bidet sooner than they thought, and the CackleJackal would be a loose cannon.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/28/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Curious timing on the release

Wakandan tech is the best in the World.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||

#3  the CackleJackal would be a loose cannon.

Cackla Harris
Posted by: Elmanter the Obscure3358 || 08/28/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  White, DEMOCRATIC, mob....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2021 15:27 Comments || Top||

#5  So when I was just a
A bunch of WHITE RACIST Pretty sure 99.99% were DEMOCRATS down in FLA. Seriously violated the US Civil Rights and the MEDIA covered for them even back then.

Look we all know some serious crap happen 50tp 160+ years ago.
But Racism is no longer a Local state or federal government policy.

The DEMOCRAT'S JIM CROW LAWS in the South and YES in the North also, are no longer on the books.

A vast overwhelming MAJORITY of the USA no longer supports, feels or acts racist. FBI is tracking less than 100 real White Racist Hate Groups in 2020 with membership totaling less 50,000 / 332,000,000 or 0.015~ of 1%

However BLM has a membership of about 200,000

Note: Also unless you were already a 16+ White Teen back in 1960, it is highly unlikely your were supportive of Racism.



QUESTIONS:
Who Poplar Bear?
Who is attack Asian?
How much did the BLM Leadership make ... according to news reports purchase several Million $$ houses?
Who has been seen on the NEWS rioting, Arson and Looting.
Did your Elected official Champaign supporting Racism against Blacks or was it to the other way around?


So if the Politicians and Millionaire Race Pimps would quit stirring the Pot every election to incite voters. Maybe, just maybe the past can be put behind us and we can continue to move forward.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Balance that against the CURRENT videos of blacks going out of their way to attack whites, Asians, and Jews.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/28/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||

#7  When I bring this up to a Dem co-worker, the answer is "But we've changed. Working class tax dollars prove it."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 18:55 Comments || Top||

#8  er, ref #4.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 18:55 Comments || Top||

#9  "But we've changed. Working class tax dollars prove it."

That sounds like the old 'But Republicans and Democrats have swapped positions since then!" argument. Which is a proven falsehood.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2021 19:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Can it be questioned, like the moon landing?
Posted by: Slappy || 08/28/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||

#11  I don't see this as a reaction to anything. This is part of the rolling script. We're going to see a lot more of this moving forward. NN21 is right, and there's more where that came from.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/28/2021 20:45 Comments || Top||


CDC says 88,000 prescriptions of horse dewormer ivermectin have been issued in one week - a 24-FOLD increase from pre-pandemic levels - as agency warns against using the drug to treat Covid
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:26 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  It sounds like using this stuff without consulting a licensed physician about dosage is not a good idea, Skidmark.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably a good idea to get your doctor involved when dealing with life-threatening illnesses. As it says in Ecclesiastes, there is a time for self-medication, and there is a time to consult your physician.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 2:21 Comments || Top||

#4  It works. I have seen the results. I and many others do not believe the medical, news and political propaganda. Go your way and live in a your false sense of security. OH, I understand your thinking. You accept your years of training as 100% correct. Look at your leaders of today. They are far from perfect. Time will tell. The vaccine will have serious impacts for years to come. Burials are running seven days a week now. Help wanted.
Posted by: Dale || 08/28/2021 4:17 Comments || Top||

#5 

Ground breaking or Stupid?
Either way it peaks Volumes to the distrust and low regard that the General Public has for the IDIOTS now running the show.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Go Duck Go - Japan Ivermectin
(cause you are not going to get info from Google)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I can go to a local feed store and buy "horse medicine" versions of azythomycin or penicillin. Does that mean that they're both Horse Medicine?

The "Horse Dewormer" thing is a propaganda point.

And they have to keep pushing it because if they don't they get found out.

And the Tokyo AMA has been pushing for its use, so they need to turn the propaganda up.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/28/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  'horse dewormer' nomenclature is so that the Karens and associated busybodies of the left can post on Twitter: 'Dur hur Trump supporters were injecting bleach and now they are taking horse medicine'
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/28/2021 8:13 Comments || Top||

#9  It sounds like using this stuff without consulting a licensed physician about dosage is not a good idea, Skidmark.

Ivermectin Dosage

Ivermectin (Oral Route)
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Yup
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Be aware that animal brands of ivermectin and other meds are not processed with the same standards and often with the same other ingredients as those for humans.

Even in the animal world many responsible breeders of show and performance / working dogs refuse to use the cheaper OTC livestock version of ivermection for the monthly heartworm prevention that dogs should get, absorbing the higher cost of labeled brands like Heartgard that require a prescription. What a 1,200-1,800 lb bull or horse can tolerate in the way of additives or impurities can do real damage to dogs - or humans.
Posted by: Spusosh Croluck9804 || 08/28/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#12  "Stupidity is not a crime - but it is a capital offence" an old Russian saying.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#13  The CDC is a fraud organization. No onen says anything because they dole out funding. Think United Way when hearing their expert opinions.
Posted by: Thomoger Bucket3044 || 08/28/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Referring to I ermectin as horse dewormer is the worst sort of agitprop. It’s indicated by the FDA for use in children, and listed by WHO as an essential human med.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 08/28/2021 22:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Be aware that animal brands of ivermectin and other meds are not processed with the same standards and often with the same other ingredients as those for humans.

hIGHER STANDARDS?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 22:57 Comments || Top||


Biden's dog Major Attacked Many More People Than The White House Has Disclosed: Great ATTACKER 8 days in a Row !
[FoxNews] President Biden’s German shepherd Major attacked many more people than the White House has disclosed, according to newly released emails.

The documents indicate that Major bit members of the Secret Service eight days in a row in early March — though only one such incident was publicly acknowledged.

At least one White House visitor also was bitten in early March, according to the emails, which were released Thursday by the conservative transparency group Judicial Watch, which slammed the "cover-up" of the incidents.
Posted by: Unealing Gleng3193 || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Put your hands in your pockets! Don't block
Joe's shepherd from herding your cock!"
"I sure hope these roosters
Have all had their boosters..."
"I'm not taking chances!" [pulls Glock... feathers fly, Major runs off after a chick]
Posted by: Andy Wholuth8576 || 08/28/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  If I were a dog I would be attacking his seedy friends, too. He's my hero.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/28/2021 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Major has shown more aggression than our Generals.
Posted by: Punky Pherelet2401 || 08/28/2021 2:26 Comments || Top||

#4  SOTD vote for ^
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/28/2021 3:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Just behaving like its owner.
Posted by: Dale || 08/28/2021 4:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe, the Bad News Keeps Raining On Your Administration

Posted by: Thumper Flosh4732 || 08/28/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#7  You sure it's the dog - not Joe himself?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#8 
He Sniffs.....

..... I Bite, I'd like to Eat'em
Posted by: Graque Tingle8145 || 08/28/2021 18:33 Comments || Top||

#9  That Camera Guy LOOOKS TASTY...
Posted by: Graque Tingle8145 || 08/28/2021 18:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Funny how "Bad Biden" stuff is leaking out now, eh?

Gonna' warm up the old kazoo for my rendition of "Hail to the Chief," this in welcome to our first "Madam President."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 19:06 Comments || Top||

#11  The drum and the fife and kazoo!
Madam President! Joe's in his tomb
As she rides to our aid
And the ladies parade.
I'm afraid she's the second kaboom.
Posted by: Shomong Borgia7813 || 08/28/2021 22:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Portable MORGUES are sent to Florida after record-breaking average of 212 daily deaths and 21,534 cases this week push hospitals and crematoriums to breaking point
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 09:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  [Not the Bee]
The Miami Herald on Thursday ran with this shocking and arresting headline:

Florida COVID update: 901 added deaths, largest single-day increase in pandemic history

It's obvious what the paper is trying to communicate: That the state on Wednesday recorded a staggering 901 deaths, a brutal toll and a razor-sharp indictment of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's handling of the pandemic there. In particular the number is plainly supposed to indicate that the pandemic is spiraling out of control as deaths skyrocket to unimaginable numbers. It was actually as low as 8

Unsurprisingly, the 901 figure was spread far and wide on social media. Here's a viral post from a Florida Democratic activist: *snipped*
We could do this all day, but you get the point: People are rightfully freaking out over the apparently worsening pandemic in the state, as exemplified by 901 Floridians having died on a single day.

Here's the thing, though: The 901 figure is bogus, at least as far as it's meant to symbolize an entire day's worth of deaths. It's not. Not even close.

Rather, the numbers represent the cumulative deaths gathered from a dataset stretching as far back as March of 2020.
Florida didn't report 901 deaths on a single day; it reported 901 deaths from a set of over three dozen days.

It's not surprising that it's done this way: Public health authorities are always working on a lag when it comes to reported deaths. If ten people die from COVID-19 on a Monday, the health department might only report one of those deaths on a Tuesday, then two on Wednesday, then the remaining seven on Thursday as death certificates come in and are confirmed. This is done on a rolling basis and then updated in bulk at certain intervals – a policy DeSantis' opponents allege is meant to hide total deaths... you know, for like a few weeks?

To get an idea of where all the deaths occurred, here's a dataset breakdown of the 901 deaths announced this week...
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Why people hate the Media
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Part of the new narrative designed to remove a potentially strong Republican Presidential candidate from contention by relabeling him as 'Gov DeathSantis.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/28/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#4  That's what happens when you pander to (electorally insignificant fringe) Ron.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:40 Comments || Top||

#5  They're obviously terrified of DeSantis.
This is a good sign -- a sign of his strength

DeSantis 2024
Posted by: Ulomoling Ulavise2696 || 08/28/2021 14:45 Comments || Top||

#6  "Portable morgues have been sent to 14 hospital systems in Central Florida as hospitals and crematoriums hit capacity due to a surge in the Delta variant"

Is it just me, or is there something out of order here?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 19:01 Comments || Top||


New Orleans Evacuates As Hurricane Ida Expected To Strengthen To Category 4 With 140 Mph Winds - National FoxNews
Posted by: Unealing Gleng3193 || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Paging Ray Nagin, Paging Ray Nagin,
You are wanted on the Emergency Preparedness Phone

Paging Ray Nagin, Paging Ray Nagin,
You are wanted on the Emergency Preparedness Phone

Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 0:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't go to the Superdome
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/28/2021 0:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Ida may hit New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 0:45 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^^^ please delete ---wrong graphic
Posted by: Skunky Black9692 || 08/28/2021 1:22 Comments || Top||

#9 

Given all of the things this openly Secular Administration is facing and has faced in just 9 months.

One has to ask.
IS GOD tapping them on the shoulder?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 6:48 Comments || Top||

#10 
HISTORICAL REMINDER
Hurricanes & the Louisiana/Gulf area = 7 to 15 day Gasoline Shortages and long lasting price spikes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#11  They should follow the advice of that Ford All-Electric truck advertisement: they can run their house by plugging it in for day(s)...or not. (/s)
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Hurricane Ida knocks out more oil production than Katrina did as it barrels into the Gulf - Daily Mail
US Oil and gas companies halted more than 1.6 million barrels of oil production Friday as Hurricane Ida cut through the Gulf of Mexico
Posted by: Elmeack Dribble3462 || 08/28/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#13  halted more than 1.6 million barrels of oil production
Should take a week for most of it to come back on but likely there will be severe damage that takes 5-10% off permanently.

Posted by: Glenmore || 08/28/2021 15:37 Comments || Top||

#14  In the coming days, in several Southern States
Posted by: Albemarle Thart9070 || 08/28/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||


Denmark will scrap ALL Covid restrictions in two weeks and stop classifying it as 'a critical threat to society'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I read that Norway is also doing this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||


#5 

Norwegians face £250 fine for urinating towards Russia: Please point Me Toward Russia
Posted by: Thumper Flosh4732 || 08/28/2021 13:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably a prerequisite for cutting gov financing of Covid hospital treatments.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Seriously?

What you do, is dig a well, make the fine any denomination of coin, flip the coin into the well, then take the piss.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/28/2021 14:51 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Four NYPD cops are suspended without pay after security footage shows them doing NOTHING as man pulls out gun and opens fire
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could be a rational economic calculation: Weeks without pay vs the fallout and possible jail time for shooting an unarmed black man who was turning his life around.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 2:15 Comments || Top||

#2 

"WATCH the monkeys in the zoo!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 23:03 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Jewish community in Latvia to get 40 million euros for Soviet misdeeds
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Latvia is ready to allocate 40 million euros as compensation to the country's Jewish community for communal property lost during the Holocaust. This was reported by the local "Radio 4".

It is noted that the corresponding bill, prepared by the budgetary and financial commission of the parliament, was submitted to the parliamentarians for the first reading.

The bill provides that the amount will be paid over 10 years from the state budget. The funds should be allocated as compensation for part of the property that belonged to the Jewish community of Latvia before June 16, 1940, that is, before it was nationalized by the Soviet government, and then the Jewish community was practically destroyed during the Nazi occupation.

Both the Legal Bureau of the Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia expressed support for the bill.

MPs from the National Unity Party criticized the bill. In particular, MP Aleksandrs Kirshteins said that then the issue of payment of compensation to the Baltic Germans should be resolved and that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are responsible for the consequences of the occupation, from whose "successors", the MP believes, compensation should be demanded, and not from Latvia.

It is noted that the Jewish community of Latvia has the right to claim the return of 270 real estate objects, which before World War II belonged to Jewish organizations, not private individuals, and was nationalized. Or get compensation for them if a return is not possible.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  According to Wikipedia, there are 8,100 Jews in Latvia this year, down from a peak of about 96,000 in 1925.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey! I identify as a Latvian Jew!

Other than actual location. And that Catholic thing
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I identify as a Latvian Jew!

So be it! Who are we to contradict your lived experience with mere hate facts and geography.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  A man of Revere, of means meager,
Identifies now, and seems eager --
"Just like me poor mom..."
[crosses self] "The pogrom..." --
As some real estate, regal, in Riga.
Posted by: Creter B. Hayes3355 || 08/28/2021 23:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Me, I just identify, in present context, as Muhammad freakin' Ali.
Posted by: Creter B. Hayes3355 || 08/28/2021 23:22 Comments || Top||


Su-24 bomber crashes in Urals, air crew ejects safely
By Yuri Smityuk
[TASS] A Su-24 bomber crashed near the city of Perm in the Urals and its pilots ejected, the press office of Russia’s Central Military District reported on Friday.

"On August 27, a Su-24 plane crashed 95 km west of the city of Perm while making a flight to the Aircraft Repair Enterprise for scheduled repairs. According to the reports from the scene of the incident, the pilots ejected," the statement says.

A helicopter of the search and rescue service has been dispatched for evacuation from the crash site," the press office said.

The Central Military District told journalists that there was no destruction on the ground after a Su-24 bomber crashed under Perm.

"The flight was without payload. The plane crashed in a forest area. There is no destruction on the ground," the District said.

Also, according to the source in emergency services, crew of crashed Su-24 bomber was found, their lives are not in danger.

"The [rescue] team has found the Su-24 crew, their lives are not in danger," the source said.

The source added that the crew is being evacuated by a helicopter.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  while making a flight to the Aircraft Repair Enterprise for scheduled repairs

They waited a little too long.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||


Huge explosion at Kazakh military base kills nine: Hundreds of people are evacuated after munitions store blows up
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Socialist explosives safety policy FTW!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/28/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||


Russia unveils new AK for Spec Ops units
Follow up from this story three days ago
by Sergey Karpuhin

[RBTH] The weapon has been created especially for stealth operations at night and is already going through battle tests in Spec Ops units.

The Kalashnikov Concern has created a new assault rifle for Russia’s Spec Ops units - the AK-12SP. The novelty was unveiled during the ‘Army 2021’ military expo outside Moscow in late August 2021.
"This one goes to 11"
The weapon represents a later modification of the AK-12 platform that was adopted to the military back in 2018. To this day, there are already more than 100,000 assault rifles of this class in the army, but the Special Operation units needed a number of modifications to be integrated serially into the weapon to effectively conduct their operations.

The biggest focus was on increasing the weapon’s capabilities during stealth operations at night.

The differences between a classic AK-12 and the Spec Op version
Ramil Sitnikov
The AK-12SP has advanced shooting characteristics compared to the mass-produced AK-12.

First of all, the new rifle has received a new sniper style stock. It has a special “cheek” for precision shooting, which also helps to adjust the weapon equipped with oversized optics.

The weapon has also been modified for right- and left- handed users, as its controls are duplicated on both sides, the safety in particular.

The AK-12SP also has new rails on top and a fully redesigned foregrip.

The weapon’s kit also includes all elements required for night skirmishes - a laser, flashlight and an easily detachable silencer.

As the company states, there were a number of internal design modifications made to increase the fire accuracy of the weapon - one of the most widely criticised characteristics of the AK assault rifles.

What the two rifles have in common
Kirill Kalinnikov
AK-12SP has the same pistol grip with instruments inside of it needed for complete disablement of a rifle.

The magazines also have transparent windows that show the number of ammo left. Nevertheless, operatives will also be able to use standard AK-74 magazines on their missions.

The weapon’s length is 0.98 meters. It weighs 3.5 kg without ammo. The AK-12SP will be produced in two calibers - 5,45x39 mm and 7,62x39 mm. The action system remains the same - gas-operated long stroke gas piston with rotating bolt.

Its barrel is still 0.41 meters long. At the tip is a new muzzle break that allows operatives to smash windows and cut wires.

Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Taliban and Central/South American Drug Cartels already placing orders.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||


Economy
Insurance providers will no longer waive all costs associated with COVID-19 treatments
[FoxBusiness] The majority of private health insurance companies have stopped waiving patients' fees associated with treatment for COVID-19 as most had done since the early days of the pandemic, a new study has found.

According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), 72% of U.S. insurers who previously waived cost-sharing or entirely covered treatment costs have quit doing so and another 10% will be phasing out such waivers by the end of October.

In a previous study done in the earlier days of the pandemic, KFF found that 88% of fully insured COVID-19 patients would have had all of their hospitalizations costs waived by their insurer. The group noted that insurance companies were enjoying higher profits during periods of lockdown and uncertainty, as many people put check-ups and elective procedures on hold.

But since vaccines became widely available in the U.S. and Americans began going back to the doctor, insurers gradually started pulling back on the waivers.

The cost of treating someone hospitalized with COVID-19 can reach tens of thousands of dollars or more. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan told WXYZ-TV that since the pandemic began, the company has paid out $750 million, and around 250,000 of their members paid nothing out of pocket for the treatments.

"No costs," BCBSM Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer Dr. James Grant told the outlet. "If you were on a ventilator, you could've been there a month, two months, three months, that’s expensive. Sometimes seven-digit care. We waived all the costs."

BCBSM will no longer waive COVID-19 treatment costs starting Oct. 1, but vaccinations will continue to be free for members as that is seen as a major preventive measure for keeping patients alive and keeping costs down. A study released by the CDC found that unvaccinated coronavirus patients were 29 times more likely to be hospitalized than vaccinated individuals who caught breakthrough infections.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/28/2021 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  That last paragraph seems to conflict with recent Israeli researchers reporting that the vaxxed are 13 times more likely to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated naturally immune.

Who to believe?
Posted by: Xyz || 08/28/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Green sounds.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Who Created COVID-19?
[Substack] Since the compromised Federal government refuses to answer this question, Emerald Robinson gives it a shot.
It’s now widely known that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was responsible for sending millions of U.S. federal dollars to the Wuhan Lab of Virology in China to support extremely dangerous “gain of function” research (a term of art for bioweapons research) via third-party proxies like EcoHealth Alliance.

Clearly, Fauci was funding this dangerous research on weaponizing bat coronaviruses, but who were the scientists actually manipulating and genetically altering these bat coronaviruses into “chimeras” in a lab? Who actually created COVID-19? Here’s some obvious truths that the corporate media won’t tell you.

1) In 2015, an article in NATURE magazine discussed how a bat coronavirus had been engineered in a lab — which stirred up a debate about dangerous "gain of function" research. The researchers had created a “chimera” virus made up of a surface protein of SHC014 from horseshoe bat in China and the backbone of a SARS virus.

The people who defended this research in the article were: Ralph Baric at UNC and Peter Daszak at EcoHealth Alliance.
Posted by: Punky Pherelet2401 || 08/28/2021 05:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm guessing Gaia had nothing to do with it. But if you accept this as a starting point, one must also question the origins of the dozens of other bugs and plagues that have ravaged Africa for decades. I doubt anyone wishes to go there at the moment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Fun, speculative virus TV

ReGenesis
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Not Der Juden?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Nope.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 22:55 Comments || Top||


Drinking three cups of coffee a day cuts your risk of dying from heart disease by up to 17%, study shows
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:18 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't it also make you slightly neurotic?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/28/2021 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  No, that's 12 cups.
2/hr per duty cycle.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  A little Jameson and some cream reduces neurotic tendencies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#4  What about 30?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Three 16oz cups seem correct. None after 6pm if you are older or have to get up at night to water the “dog”.
Posted by: Grampaw Cooky || 08/28/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ "Water the dog" and check the wire. Hit the Burg, read the traffic, etc.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||

#7  It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the bean of Java the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
-- Programmer's Prayer

Why yes, I'll have another cup! Blessings of Turing upon you, my child.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 17:00 Comments || Top||

#8  HA!! das ist gut zu hören!!.
Posted by: Dale || 08/28/2021 21:55 Comments || Top||


Scientists are growing Delta Covid variant in a lab to purposely infect humans (who will be paid up to £4,500 for taking part)
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Scientists are infecting volunteers as part of the human challenge trials

  • Original trials by Imperial and Oxford University began in London in March

  • Now experts are growing the Delta variant for new trials at the end of the year
The study will initially aim to help doctors understand how the immune system reacts to different levels of coronavirus and how a person who is infected with Covid virus transmits infectious particles into the environment.

But it's hoped that vaccine candidates shown to be safe in early studies will then be trialled on the participants to accelerate their approval.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  I'm pretty sure we've seen this movie. At least once.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Will there be a model looking genius female scientist?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ a model tranny scientist
Posted by: Spealet Pholuse2139 || 08/28/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Will there be a model looking genius female scientist?

Yes, and she will know algebra and Unix and have a nice rack. Of test tubes. What?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 20:11 Comments || Top||

#6  wHERE CAN WE SIGN UP?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 23:00 Comments || Top||


Mystery private firm is building an orbiting space outpost to house civilian astronauts for months at a time
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Collins Aerospace in Charlotte, North Carolina, builds systems for space stations

  • This includes water recycling and life support systems commissioned by NASA

  • The firm confirmed it has a private customer building a commercial orbital base

  • It isn't clear who the developer of the space station is or when it will be launched

  • Axiom Space is the frontrunner as they are planning for a private space station

  • The space tourism firm has a deal with SpaceX and has a proposed module for the International Space Station exclusively for the use of private astronauts
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that a volcano lair is standard equipment for super-villains, a man has to go the extra mile to show the world he is a criminal genius. Space is the place. The High Ground. The Final Frontier... although if the Universe is infinite then the frontier is not that final. You could call it the Infinite Frontier, but then you lose the alliteration and that probably won't fly with Marketing.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  D D Harriman smiles
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/28/2021 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Eventually to be the site of the Uber-Davos meetings. So they can literally look down on their possessions.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/28/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Volcano lairs. Let me tell ya, pain in the ass. All those environmental impact studies, then you got the greenies sending you bills for carbon offsets or some shit like the volcano would just stop emitting CO2 if nobody was there. The constantly shifting foundation means there is no such thing as a right angle; you try loading a nuclear device onto a missile when the approachway looks like a Escher drawing on dollar tequila shot night. Can't get cold water. Can't use the lava tube service entrance because those ghawdammed tiktokers doing yoga selfies all the time. The worst, the worst, is once a month some young gal get thrown in and splatter all over your work station. Totally random; if they just pick a day, 1st of the month, 3rd Friday, whatever, but noooo, you get some 3 seconds of screaming as a heads up then -splat-.

No, a Drax station, that is the future. No space shuttle to ferry up space marines. No hippies on walkabouts getting a sense for Gaia's aura, dinner tastes like the food instead of brimstone, if you miss the sunset just wait a couple hours, sounds fantastic.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/28/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ *SNORT*
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2021-08-28
  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-22
  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
Sat 2021-08-21
  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol
Fri 2021-08-20
  IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
Thu 2021-08-19
  US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace
Sun 2021-08-15
  Kabul has fallen, Taliban is killing political leadership and religious minorities in Afghanistan
Sat 2021-08-14
  Herat: Ismail Khan captured by the Taliban


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